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You claim you "accept" your gay friends for who they are, yet you believe in discriminating against homosexuals, by denying them marriage.
Oh you're such a wonderful individual to "tolerate" homosexuals like that. Oh they must feel so very fortunate to have such a kind friend
But I'm the vile one.
Since this is quickly spiraling into a flame war, let me attempt to clean it up.
I accept my friends for who they are. What they do in their private moments is their own business. I do not feel that their acts are criminal. After all, that was the question in the OP, correct?
I do not deny them the right to marry. The popular vote does. They don't want marriage anyway. They are happy being free to do as they please.
I do not compromise my personal morals to maintain friendships. They know how I feel and we've been friends since childhood.
You on the other hand seem very, very bitter. I don't know if you have always been like that, but I hope you find happiness soon.
For the life of me I can not ever figure out how it matters to people who two consenting adults choose to love or, for that matter, with whom they have sex. What possible right do people have to have a say over the personal life of other adults? Can't people just mind their own darned business and let others do the same?
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Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale
What do you all think of this statement?
"I have gay friends. They know that I think their lifestyle is immoral."
Doesn't it seem a bit odd that anyone would have friends whom they believe are immoral? Or that those so-called immoral people would even want to be friends with someone who thinks of them that way?
That's exactly what ditchlights stated in this thread.
Apparently he believes he's doing his homosexual friends a big favor by being a tolerant bigot, to their very essence.
Homosexuality is NOT a lifestyle.
Swinging is a lifestyle.
Being a Harley Davidson biker in a motorcycle gang, is a lifestyle.
Living and breathing Star Wars or Star Trek, is a lifestyle.
Being a jetsetter is a lifestyle.
Bose makes crappy Lifestyle radios and speakers.
Being a homosexual is being what you are. It's NOT a lifestyle, it's the essence of who you are.
The truth is, ditchlights is more immoral in thinking, believing and saying that homosexuals are immoral. Than any homosexual could ever be immoral for being who they are.
Location: Partisanship Is An Intellectual/Emotional Handicap
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Originally Posted by ditchlights
Since this is quickly spiraling into a flame war, let me attempt to clean it up.
I accept my friends for who they are. What they do in their private moments is their own business. I do not feel that their acts are criminal. After all, that was the question in the OP, correct?
I do not deny them the right to marry. The popular vote does. They don't want marriage anyway. They are happy being free to do as they please.
I do not compromise my personal morals to maintain friendships. They know how I feel and we've been friends since childhood.
You on the other hand seem very, very bitter. I don't know if you have always been like that, but I hope you find happiness soon.
"I have gay friends. They know that I think their lifestyle is immoral."
Doesn't it seem a bit odd that anyone would have friends whom they believe are immoral? Or that those so-called immoral people would even want to be friends with someone who thinks of them that way?
I wonder if heterosexual couples flaunted what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms how many other heterosexuals would consider it a little "immoral"?
It also depends on one's definition of "immoral". It's different for everyone.
If you are friends with a hetero couple who "swing", (have one) you can still be friends with them but not like their lifestyle...and you can still think their behavior is immoral....FOR YOU.
My morals work for me, I don't impress them on others and I don't want anyone else assuming what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms should be shoved down my throat and blindly accepted by me without consideration b/c just because it's the politically correct "thing to do".
I wonder if heterosexual couples flaunted what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms how many other heterosexuals would consider it a little "immoral"?
It also depends on one's definition of "immoral". It's different for everyone.
If you are friends with a hetero couple who "swing", (have one) you can still be friends with them but not like their lifestyle...and you can still think their behavior is immoral....FOR YOU.
My morals work for me, I don't impress them on others and I don't want anyone else assuming what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms should be shoved down my throat and blindly accepted by me without consideration b/c just because it's the politically correct "thing to do".
Respect is a two way street.
Is the OP going to be sending the government to montior straights behind their closed doors too to make sure they are only having married, missionary intercourse for only procreative purposes also?
None of the people who voted "yes" have commented. If homosexual behavior were criminalized in the U.S., what would they suggest as the punishment? Fines? Jail time? Death? Or maybe just intensive therapy? (Nah, that would be too liberal for them, probably.)
Is the OP going to be sending the government to montior straights behind their closed doors too to make sure they are only having married, missionary intercourse for only procreative purposes also?
How would I know? Ask the OP.
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